Can Chinese speakers understand different accents? @xiaoguachinese | Intermediate Chinese

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/07/15

2025/07/15

Speech duration: 25min 3s
Unique characters · 95 once: 386
Word count: 3,432
Average sentence length: 7.0
Length: 29:42
Unique words · 145 once: 412
Syllables per minute: 194
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 698
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 116 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 116 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 116

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 116 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 116 sits in the Advanced range.

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Vocab coverage

The Level you need to know each share of this video’s words. The dark 95% step is its difficulty.

Lv 1

Lv 5

Lv 38

Lv 116

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

Which HSK 3.0 list each of this video’s words comes from.

HSK 1 57%
HSK 2 7%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 3%
HSK 6 2%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 16%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 78% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 83%, HSK 1–9 covers 84%.

Words to learn first

Pick a level to see the words a learner there needs to understand 95% of this video’s words.

Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 245 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 245 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
的	de	of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的\|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs; really and truly; a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4]); (bound form) bull's-eye; target	172	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	130	Lv 1
是	shì	to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]	121	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	98	Lv 1
对	duì	right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching	88	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	86	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	80	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	79	Lv 2
说	shuō	to persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說\|说[shuo1]	77	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	72	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	55	Lv 1
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	51	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	48	Lv 1
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	47	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	46	Lv 2
你	nǐ	you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2]); you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)	44	Lv 1
什么	shén me	what?; something; anything	40	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	36	Lv 1
那	nà	(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case); (archaic) many; beautiful; how; variant of 哪[na3]; old variant of 挪[nuo2]; surname Na; surname Nuo	34	Lv 1
你们	nǐ men	you (plural)	32	Lv 1

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A 30-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 25 minutes of speech at 194 syllables per minute. It's 3,432 words long, using 412 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 116 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 116 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 是.